Originally published at The Crux
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About two years ago, amid a rise in Artificial Intelligence, particularly Chat GPT, Crux Now spoke with Joseph Vukov about his new book, Staying Human in an Era of Artificial Intelligence. At the time, he reasoned that it was important to write on the topic as people began to wonder at the similarities and differences between the technology and themselves.
“These things are everywhere now, and they look like the sort of thing that a human created, and because of that reaction people are having, it made me start thinking about what does our Catholic tradition say about what it is that makes us human?” Vukov, associate director of The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago, who studies the intersection of technology and Catholic faith, explained at the time.
“It turns out that when you start thinking along those lines it becomes clear really quickly that while AI is maybe humanlike in some ways, it’s a far cry from what actually makes us human according to the Catholic tradition,” he said.
Fast forward, and those sentiments echo those made by Pope Leo XIV in his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person
